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• Texas man executed for 2001 abduction and killing of 18-year-old woman

  27-06-2024 02:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who admitted he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001 was executed Wednesday evening.
  Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CDT following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the January 2001 killing of Bridget Townsend, authorities said.Gonzales kidnapped Townsend from a rural home in Bandera County, northwest of San Antonio. He later took her to his family’s ranch
  
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• Hajrullahu kicks record-tying eight FGs to lead Argos past Alouettes 37-31

  29-09-2024 04:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Lirim Hajrullahu kicked a CFL record-tying eight field goals to lift the Toronto Argonauts to a 37-31 win over the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday night.
  Hajrullahu’s 27-yard field goal — his club record-tying seventh — at 12:43 of the fourth put Toronto ahead 34-31. Montreal took possession at its 34-yard line with 2:10 remaining but turned the ball over on downs at its 39-yard line with 1:24 to play before an announced BMO Field gathering of 14,856.
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• Leafs win spirited pre-season battle 2-1, Canadiens lose Laine

  29-09-2024 03:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Toronto Maple Leafs have won both NHL pre-season games against the Montreal Canadiens, bringing home a physical 2-1 win on Saturday evening at the Centre Bell.
  Nicholas Robertson scored twice for the Maple Leafs, while Kirby Dach scored Montreal’s lone goal late in the third period.
  After less than four minutes, the raucous Centre Bell abruptly fell crowd quiet when newly acquired forward Patrik Laine collided with Cedric Pare and Jacob Quillan of the Leafs in what app
  
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• Martinez scores twice, CF Montreal earns 3 crucial points with 3-0 win over San Jose

  29-09-2024 03:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Josef Martinez scored twice as CF Montreal earned three crucial points in a 3-0 win over the league-worst San Jose Earthquakes in MLS play Saturday.
  The veteran striker, a league MVP in 2018, opened the scoring in the 50th minute and doubled the lead in the 55th to bring the 19,619 fans at Saputo Stadium out of their seats.
  Caden Clark, who assisted on Martinez’s second goal, made it 3-0 in the 72nd minute as Montreal (9-12-10) extended its unbeaten run to four games (3-0-
  
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• B.C.’s NDP, Conservatives nominate full slates of candidates for Oct. 19 election

  29-09-2024 02:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Elections BC says the New Democrats and Conservatives have nominated full slates of candidates for the upcoming Oct. 19 provincial election.
  Elections BC says in a statement the two main parties will field candidates for each of the province’s 93 ridings, while the Green Party nominated 69 candidates.
  Nominations closed Saturday afternoon with 323 total candidates, of which 269 represent seven different political parties and 54 who are contesting the election as Independen
  
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• Canada announces $10 million for humanitarian assistance in Lebanon

  29-09-2024 02:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is contributing $10 million for humanitarian assistance for civilians in Lebanon amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
  International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the funds Saturday in a news release, which says the money will help provide things like food, water, and emergency healthcare, including sexual and reproductive healthcare.
  It says the funding is in addition to the US$10 million already allocated to the crisis in Lebanon by the
  
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• Tentative deal reached in Metro Vancouver grain strike, federal minister says

  29-09-2024 01:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s labour minister says striking grain terminal workers in Metro Vancouver and their employers have reached a tentative labour deal.
  Steven MacKinnon announced the agreement between Grain Workers Union Local 333 and the Vancouver Terminal Elevators’ Association in a post on social media platform X, but provided no other details.
  Neither the union representing the workers nor the Western Grain Elevator Association representing the employers have responded to requests for comment
  
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• Haudenosaunee Confederacy women earn world box lacrosse bronze medal

  29-09-2024 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UTICA — The Haudenosaunee Confederacy earned the first bronze medal awarded in a women’s world box lacrosse championship Saturday in Utica, N.Y.
  A women’s championship was included for the first time in the sixth edition of the world box championship.
  The Haudenosaunee, whose territory includes the Six Nations in southern Ontario, defeated Australia 21-4 for bronze.
  Canada will face the United States for gold medals in both the men’s and women’s finals on Sunday.
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• NDP’s Eby promises more local film industry jobs, if elected, during Langley stop

  29-09-2024 01:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — NDP Leader David Eby is promising to “grow good-paying jobs” across B.C.s film industry through changes to a tax credit, if he’s elected.
  During one of two stops in the Fraser Valley on Saturday, Eby pledged to increase the Production Services Tax Credit and the Film Incentive BC refund to 36 percent, which he believes will create some 7,000 jobs.
  “Film production in B.C. has taken a big hit over the last few years–from the pandemic, labour disruptio
  
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• Roughriders down Redblacks 29-16 to vault over Lions in CFL’s West Division

  29-09-2024 00:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders moved into second place in the CFL’s West Division with a 29-16 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday.The Roughriders (7-7-1) reached 15 points and one more than the B.C. Lions (7-8-0) who lost 32-29 in overtime to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday.The Redblacks (8-6-1) rank second in the East Division three points up on the Toronto Argonauts, who were at home to the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday night.
  Kicker Brett Lauther led Saskatche
  
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• Rachel Homan, Kayla Skrlik to clash in curling’s PointsBet Invitational women’s final

  29-09-2024 00:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Rachel Homan’s curling team is a win away from defending its PointsBet Invitational women’s title.
  Homan beat Kaitlyn Lawes 10-5 in Saturday’s semifinal to extend her winning streak to 11 wins this season.
  Homan, the reigning Canadian and world champion, will meet Kayla Skrlik’s Calgary foursome in Sunday’s final.
  Curling Canada’s five-day PointsBet is a single-knockout event offering a purse of just over $350,000. The men’s and women&rsq
  
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• Myers drives in five runs, Marlins limit Blue Jays to four hits in 8-1 romp

  29-09-2024 00:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Dane Myers hit a three-run homer and Xzavion Curry pitched five strong innings to lead the Miami Marlins to an 8-1 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday at Rogers Centre.Myers also had a two-run double while Griffin Conine chipped in with three of Miami’s 11 hits. Darren McCaughan pitched four shutout innings for his second save.
  Nathan Lukes hit his first career home run for the Blue Jays, who were held to four hits on the afternoon.
  Miami (61-100) can wrap up a three-
  
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• BC Conservatives farming plan seeks to ‘get rid of red tape’ says Rustad during campaign stop in Abbotsford

  28-09-2024 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – The leader of BC’s Conservatives hopes to procure more locally grown food and lessen reliance on out-of-province farmers if his party wins the next election.
  During a campaign stop at an Abbotsford-area dairy farm on Saturday, John Rustad outlined his ‘Grown In BC’ plan, which aims to double food production and get “rid of red tape” that limits what the farming sector can do in terms of processing and packaging within British Columbia.
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• NDP uses BC United research to mount attacks on ‘crackpot’ B.C. Conservatives

  28-09-2024 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Almost 200 pages of research on the B.C. Conservative Party, which sources within BC United confirm were compiled before the party dropped out of the British Columbia election campaign to support their former rivals, have come back to haunt the new alliance.
  The New Democrats are using the leaked documents to depict B.C. Conservative candidates as supporters of what they call “crackpot” conspiracy theories, including that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential e
  
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• United States takes 8-6 overall lead at Presidents Cup with 3-1 third round

  28-09-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  L’ÎLE-BIZARD–SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE, Que. — The United States has recaptured the lead at the Presidents Cup after a 3-1 third round of four-ball play at Royal Montreal Golf Club.
  That put the overall score at 8-6 heading into Saturday afternoon’s fourth round, scheduled to be alternate shot foursome format.
  The Americans’ solid third round came after the International team tied the tournament 5-5 after a resounding five-match shutout in Friday’s foursom
  
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• Montreal’s Maghrebi community sounds alarm on deadly gangs recruiting youth

  28-09-2024 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Members of Montreal’s Maghrebi community are gathering in a city park this afternoon to sound the alarm about what they call the “scourge” of street gangs recruiting youth to carry out criminal acts.Event organizer Hadjira Belkacem says parents need to come together to reclaim their children from gangs and demand authorities investigate how kids are falling prey to the alleged recruitment.
  Belkacem, who heads a group supporting mourning Muslim families in Quebe
  
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• Lotte Kopecky defends women’s road title at world cycling championship

  28-09-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ZURICH (AP) — Lotte Kopecky successfully defended her title at the women’s road race at the cycling world championships Saturday, beating her rivals in a six-way sprint finish.
  The 28-year-old Belgian rider timed her attack to perfection in the last 100 metres to fend off American rider Chloé Dygert and Italian Elisa Longo-Borghini. She thrust her arms in the air as she savored another victory.
  Magdeleine Vallières-Mill of Sherbrooke, Que., was the top Canadian in 14th.
  
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• IIHF increases women’s roster size, revamps format for world championship

  28-09-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RHODES — The International Ice Hockey Federation has revamped both the format and roster size for the women’s world hockey championships.
  At the organization’s semi-annual congress on Saturday, it decided both the women’s world championship and under-18 championship will allow rosters of 22 skaters and three goalies on each team, which aligns with male rosters.
  Women’s rosters were previously 20 skaters and three goalies.
  The 2025 women’s world championship in
  
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• Biden calls the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a ‘measure of justice’

  28-09-2024 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday called the Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah a “measure of justice” for his four-decade reign of terror.
  The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier Saturday that Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day.
  Biden noted that the operation to take out Nasrallah took place in the broader context of the conflict
  
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• Palmer nets four first-half goals, Haaland kept scoreless, Arsenal leaves it late to beat Leicester

  28-09-2024 18:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Chelsea knew it was getting a talented player by signing Cole Palmer from Manchester City last year.
  But maybe not this good.
  Palmer created some history Saturday when he became the first player to score four goals in the first half of an English Premier League match. His flurry of strikes came in Chelsea’s 4-2 win over Brighton that further strengthened the belief that the London team will be a force this season after spending more than $1 billion on players over the past two years.
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• Chiefs move to .500 with 4-1 road win in Nanaimo

  28-09-2024 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO –A pair of goals from winger Dakota MacIntosh helped power the visiting Chilliwack Chiefs past the Nanaimo Clippers on Friday in the BCHL.
  The Chiefs never trailed in the game, with Nathan Morin opening the scoring by slotting a puck past goalie Chazz Nixon at 8:41 of the first period.
  Nanaimo managed only three shots in the first 20 minutes.
  The win is the first of the new season for the Chiefs, who are now .500 after three games, with one win, one loss, and one overtime loss.
  
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• At least 52 dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march across southeastern US

  28-09-2024 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene has caused at least 52 deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeast U.S., and more than 3 million customers were without any power. Scores of people faced a continued threat of floods.
  Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over th
  
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• 17 people have been killed in 2 mass shootings in the same town in South Africa

  28-09-2024 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Seventeen people, including 15 women, were killed in two mass shootings that took place in close proximity to each other in a rural town in South Africa, police said Saturday.
  A search was underway for the suspects, national police spokesperson Brig. Athlenda Mathe said in a statement. The victims were 15 women and two men, she said. One other person was in critical condition in the hospital.
  The shootings took place Friday night in the town of Lusikisiki in Eastern Cap
  
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• Iran Revolutionary Guard general died in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader, reports say

  28-09-2024 15:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday.The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip teeters on the edge of becoming a regional conflict. His death further ratchets up pressure on Iran to respond, even as Tehran has si
  
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• Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization in B.C. election campaign

  28-09-2024 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — When NDP Leader David Eby announced this month that the province would open “secure facilities” to provide involuntary care for people with severe drug addiction or mental health problems, it represented a moment of policy unity with the rival B.C. Conservatives ahead of the fall election.
  But for drug policy advocate DJ Larkin, the consensus was loaded with irony — since the province currently isn’t able to supply enough beds even for those who want tre
  
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• LGBTQ minister Pascale St-Onge to make history with parental leave

  28-09-2024 15:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is set to make history by becoming the first openly lesbian cabinet minister to take parental leave when her wife gives birth in the coming weeks.
  “I’m not someone who really likes to talk about myself or my personal life either,” St-Onge said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
  The Quebec MP said she decided to speak publicly about her parental leave because she has “a responsibility to continue the fight&rdq
  
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• Counting the cost of British Columbia’s toxic drug crisis

  28-09-2024 15:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The toxic drug crisis is one of the most contentious and widely debated issues ahead of British Columbia’s provincial election on Oct. 19.Here’s a look at the provincial statistics on toxic drug deaths to July 31, according to the BC Coroners Service.
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  Deaths since declaration of public health emergency in April 2016: 15,140
  2024 deaths: 1,365
  2024 deaths involving detection of fentanyl: 83 per cent
  2024 deaths with smoking as mode of drug consumption: 68 per cent
  2024 victims
  
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• Jasper captive caribou breeding program slowly recovers from summer wildfire

  28-09-2024 14:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JASPER — By this time, Jasper National Park’s caribou breeding centre was supposed to be nearly done, ready for pregnant cows to bed down behind its fence, safe from predators and working on replenishing the park’s diminishing herds.
  This summer’s wildfire had other ideas.
  “We’re still looking at putting together a restoration plan,” said Jean-Francois Bisaillon, the park’s caribou specialist.
  The fire not only ravaged homes in the Jasper townsite
  
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• Flooding in Nepal’s capital kills at least 32 people

  28-09-2024 12:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Flooding caused by continuous rainfall has killed at least 32 people in Nepal’s capital, and another 12 are missing, police said Saturday.
  Rains have been pounding since Friday night and are expected to continue over the weekend. Seventeen people were also injured while 1,053 were rescued across Kathmandu, according to Nepal Police spokesman Bishwo Adhikari.
  He said all police personnel across the nation have been ordered to help in the rescue efforts.
  The gov
  
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• First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders say work lays ahead on road to reconciliation

  28-09-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal party of today is not quite the same as the one elected in 2015 promising to foster new paths and nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples, the leaders of the three national Indigenous organizations said as they look ahead to the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday.
  “Our reconciliation moment that started in 2015 really had, in the beginning, this blue-sky hope of a changed Canada,” said Natan Obed, the president of Inui
  
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